Green Floating Blockchain-Empowered Co-Trust Security Mechanism with Energy Efficiency Against Attack Threat for 6G-IoV

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) based on the 6-th Generation (6G) communication brings convenience, but also raises anxiety about information security. Researchers have developed static security schemes based on the blockchain, but it results in excessive resource occupation. And it is difficult to resist some attacks such as de-synchronization, Denial of Service (DoS), and covert intrusion. In response to the above problems, this paper proposes the Floating Blockchain Consensus Security (FBCS) scheme. It models the attack risk of Road Side Unit (RSU) through the traffic flow prediction to present the credibility evaluation and constructs the floating blockchain based on the results. And the security capability is adjusted through the dynamic joining and exit mode of trusted nodes and untrusted nodes. FBCS also establishes a relationship between blockchain size and energy consumption. Once the system resources are found to be insufficient, it applies the cloud center-based supplementary certification mechanism to provide authentication to untrusted nodes to enhance the stability of the IoV. Theoretical analysis and simulation experiments prove that the FBCS can afford data privacy, maintain moderate security capabilities, and adapt defense capabilities according to the attack environment, reduce resource occupation to save cost.